Description - Viennese Design by Jane Kallir
This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siècle Vienna is an excellent introduction to the subject in all media - from architecture, furniture, ceramics, and glass, to silver, fashion, and textiles, bookbinding, toys, painting, and the graphic arts - as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period. Features the work of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Josef Hofmann and Dagobert Peche amongst many other. AUTHOR: Jane Kallir is codirector of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York, and a specialist in Austrian and German art of the twentieth century. She is the author of Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna, Gustav Klimt: 25 Masterworks, and Egon Schiele: The Complete Works. She received the Silver Medal of Honor Services to the Republic of Austria. 55 colour, 195 b/w illustrations
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